[R] Vertical text in plot

[Wolski]

Hi Mark!

Just wonderfull. 
Was searching in the par documention file for vertical, angle, horizontal. The word rotation was out of my mind.
Thanks a lot.

Eryk



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On 7/2/2004 at 12:52 PM Marc Schwartz wrote:

>>>On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 12:45, Wolski wrote:
>>>> Hallo!
>>>> Would like to add vertical text labels to a histogram. Was trying with
>>>las but without sucess.
>>>> I am using the standard histogram.
>>>> This is what I was trying.
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>hist(resS2$sam,breaks=seq(0,1,0.01),col=3,border=0,freq=F,add=T,xlim=c(0,1))
>>>> text(quantile(resS2$dif,0.005),5, "0.5% FP rate" ,pos=2,cex=0.6,las=2)
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>> Eryk
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Eryk!
>>>
>>>Try using 'srt' instead of 'las', which is for the axis labels.
>>>
>>>For example:
>>>
>>>text(quantile(resS2$dif, 0.005), 5, "0.5% FP rate", 
>>>     pos = 2, cex = 0.6, srt = 90)
>>>
>>>See ?par for more information.
>>>
>>>HTH,
>>>
>>>Marc Schwartz
>>>
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